Oh the cuter they are the more lethal they are. Voice of experience, I’ve been killed by Sweet Innocent Looking Little Balls of Fluff more times than I can count.
Wait, does that mean I’m a zombie now? Kewl! I can star in the sequel then!

I’m getting some deja vu with this one – has it (or similar) been posted before? Or is that chill running up my spine from fear of what lurks behind the – whatever that is?
I agree, doggie does look kind of stuffed. And kitty looks very snorglable. (belleh!)

One night a few years back, I was all alone in the house on a cold night, watching a scary movie. It probably wouldn’t have been so scary if I hadn’t been all alone in a cold house, on a cold night, on an old deserted road in the middle of the woods. But there I was, too wrapped up in the movie to get up to turn the light or heater on. I huddled deeper and deeper into my blanket. At the same instant the operator was saying, “The call is coming from inside the house,” I heard a horrible grinding noise, like a chain saw, coming from the dark kitchen. I screamed and jumped off the couch, and ran out to the kitchen to find…

…that the damn cat had stepped on the “on” switch of the blender I had left plugged in.

@ T.U.M. – *giggle* I don’t know whether to be glad that something like that hasn’t happened to me or to be jealous that it hasn’t. It would definitely make the horror movie experience that much more terrifying (which is what I want in a good horror movie). Speaking of which, all the horror movies I’ve rented lately have been complete duds. Any recommendations, anybody?

Thought I would share something that happened to me over the weekend that scared me half to death:
For the past couple of days I have been home alone in my apartment with my cats and bird. Most of the people in my building are elderly, and a few days ago my neighbor passed away. I already think that my apartment is haunted so this kind of added to the situation.
A couple of nights ago I was laying in bed trying to sleep when I heard a loud banging noise on the walls so after hearing this a few times I decided to get out of bed and turn on the lights. Then the banging stopped. I opened the door of my bedroom to the hallway where my cats are kept at night. Sasha was sleeping and Misha was looking up at me. Jack, my bird, was in his room sleeping. So I decided to go back to bed. About an hour later I woke up to the banging again. I turned on the lights and listened. No banging. I opened the door again and both cats were looking up at me in wonderment. So thoroughly freaked out, I decided to try and go back to bed. I turned off the lights and went back to sleep. I woke up a few hours later to the banging so I ran out of bed and opened the door and turned on the lights… and sure enough there was Misha throwing her catnip ball against the walls.. Someone won’t be getting wet cat food for a week!
PS. It’s a lot scarier if you read it at night under a blanket and substitute Misha for a psycho killer and a cat nip ball with a bloody hook…

OoOooOooo.. @Kar, that story was creepy!
@BadKitty, my kitty does that too. But instead of looking out the window, she’ll stare with wide eyes out the bedroom door and down the empty hallway while perched on my belly. I had to start closing the door to the bedroom when going to bed alone with her!

[Especially if your closet is in the back seat, behind the shower curtain in the dark – Ed.]

There’s a card game, I don’t remember what it’s called, but it’s a fun little parody of horror / slasher flicks, where you’re trying to ‘build’ a movie while your opponents keep throwing both behind-the-scene problems and monsters at you. In one game not too long ago, I was troubled with the fact that my only set piece was ‘the back seat of the car’, which makes teenage characters instant targets. To make matters worse, one of my opponents played ‘the creepy basement’ on me… So somehow the car was in the basement!

(to keep it more picture-relevant, one of the more useful ‘actor’ cards is… Skippy the Wonder Dog!)

If a box washes up on the beach, and something inside is making growly, scratchy noises, you might want to think twice (or three or four or a hundred) times before you pry a corner open and stick your arm in it. :eyeroll:

I have an online friend who was an actor back in the 80s. He now presides over a horror movie discussion forum (two of his best-known movies were horror flix). There was a thread going for quite a while in which people were writing haiku about horror movie survival rules. It was a thing of beauty. :)

T.U.M. I laughed so hard at your story(I can just picture the whole thing), I not only had tears in my eyes, but my son asked if I was OK.
Haven’t been much of a horror flick fan since one night when I was all alone, on a farm MILES from the closest neighbor, babysitting, and a horror flick marathon was on the ONLY TV channel… sure, easy for you to say, just turn it off…. was that a tree branch scratching at the window, or…?… were those coyotes howling, or man-eating, glowing red-eyed hounds of Hell announcing the location of their next wide-eyed, teen-aged, snack….? seem to remeber awaiting the adults’ return with my back pressed against the wall where I could see the maximum number of windows and doors…

@Wend: that reminds me of the time my parents went out for dinner, and I was home alone (12), having to leave the TV on to record Alien (this was in the pre-historic time of no DVRs, when you had to keep the TV on and on the channel you were recording your video from…..). The parents found me behind the couch, hiding, while the credits rolled…….

If the opening credits haven’t started yet, you’re in the pre-credits teaser, and are probably screwed. Accept it and at least try to die with a little dignity.
Also, never run from the killer. It never helps.

@Jimbeaux: Is it Grave Robbers From Outer Space? The same company has a whole series of B-Movie card games (Bell-Bottomed Badasses on the Mean Streets of Funk looks promising!), but I think that’s the first release.

Could the sender please tell us what is the dog’s breed? I have a dog that looks the same. He is a rescue and we got him when he was about 5 so no one could tell us. We think he is Cavalier and Chihuahua but that is just guess work. Thanks!

No crazy spectacular special effects, just absolutely chilling. Gets the old imagination working overtime, I assure you!! I made the cats sleep with me the night I saw it. I figured if they were purring, there couldn’t POSSIBLY be any demons in the house. I’m sticking with that, and a night light.

LOL! Haven’t checked this site in a while. Hi guys, the pic is of my doggy Daisey D and a little male kitten I was fostering… She is definitely not stuffed, just a little sleep deprived from kitteh’s constant sneak attacks… Daisey is a pomeranian X – she was trimmed prior to the photo because it was taken during one of the hottest summers in Australia.